Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 
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Plutellidae. 
Coleophora triflua , n. sp. 
Male and female, 12 mm. Head and thorax white, with a pale yellowish 
eentral stripe, upper part of face pale yellowish. Palpi white. Antennae 
white ringed with ochreous-fuscous, basal joint white with rough tuft of pro- 
jecting pale yellowish scales in front. Abdomen light grey. Fore wings 
elongate-lanceolate, long-pointed, acute ; ochreous-yellowish, towards 
costa and apex suffused with ferruginous-brown ; a strong white costal 
streak from base to near apex ; white streaks along fold and dorsum from 
base, meeting at tornus ; cilia whitish-ochreous, at apex with a brownish 
bar, on costa white. Hind wings grey ; cilia pale greyish. 
Bultfontein (N.E. Pretoria District), in December and January (Janse) ; 
two specimens. 
Coleophora scaleuta, n. sp. 
Male and female, 14-15 mm. Head brownish-ochreous, suffused on sides 
with whitish. Palpi whitish, second joint with brownish-ochreous lateral 
streak and short apical projection of scales beneath. Antennae dilated « 
near base, white ringed with brownish-ochreous. Thorax white, shoulders 
brownish-ochreous. Abdomen pale greyish. Fore wings elongate- 
lanceolate, apex produced, acute, in male with a rather long expansible greyish 
hair pencil on under surface from base beneath costa ; brownish-ochreous ; 
a whitish costal line from base to beyond middle ; veins marked with 
suffused whitish lines ; some scattered fine black scales on plical line and 
lower margin of cell, and between veins on costal half ; cilia pale ochreous, 
tips whitish. Hind wings grey ; cilia pale greyish. 
Pretoria, in January and March (Janse) ; Durban, Natal (Leigh) ; 
three specimens. 
Coleophora halmodes, n. sp. 
Female, 10-12 mm. Head and thorax white, with a faint ochreous-grey 
central streak, shoulders tinged with ochreous-grey. Palpi whitish, 
externally tinged with grey. Antennae white, sometimes suffused with 
grey above. Abdomen whitish. Fore wings elongate-lanceolate, long- 
pointed, acute ; white, somewhat sprinkled with fuscous ; second discal 
stigma indicated by a small obscure darker dot ; cilia ochreous-whitish, 
on costa whiter, round apex tinged basally with fuscous. Hind wings 
pale grey ; cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Pretoria, in October and February (Janse) ; two specimens. 
Batrachedm granosa , n. sp. 
Male, 9-12 mm. Head and thorax ochreous-whitish. Palpi loosely 
scaled anteriorly, whitish, second joint irrorated with dark fuscous except 
apex, terminal joint with two slight wings of dark fuscous irroration. 
Abdomen ochreous-grey-whitish. Fore wings very narrowly lanceolate ; 
whitish-ochreous, sprinkled with dark fuscous ; plical and second diskal 
stigmata dark fuscous, remote ; the dark fuscous scales tend to form 
marginal dots on posterior part of costa and termen ; cilia pale whitish- 
ochreous. Plind wings pale grey ; cilia ochreous-grey-whitish. 
Pretoria, in September (Janse) ; two specimens. 
